Boston Massacre
This essay is a short look at an event in American History that at times as been to say the least maybe a bit over blown. What would later be called The Boston Massacre, wasn't your conventional massacre in that the body count was not in excessive amounts with the streets coated in the blood of the innocent. The event itself was a tragedy that people died at all in what would seem to be a night of escalating violence, but in all the death toll was no more than four, with less than twenty wounded. To borrow a quote from an old teacher, "The Boston Massacre was an massacre in that it severed the Colonist last bit of toleration it had for Great Britain." This relatively short essay is going to show in part some of the events that lead up to and occurred during The Boston Massacre then finish with how the Colonist like Paul Revere and John Hancock would use the events to ignite the beginnings of the American Revolution.One no doubt cold February morning of 1770, a group of several hundred adults and youths, including an eleven-year old Christopher Seider surrounded the house of Ebenezer Richardson. Richardson was a known Tory informer for the British customs commissioners. Unfortunately mob demonstrations d
The next day Monday March 5, 1770 one Private Hugh White of the 29th Regiment was on guard duty at a Guard Post on King Street which was close to the Customhouse. Later Preston and six of his fellow Soldier would be brought to trial. Richardson then grabs an unloaded musket and shoved it through one of the broken windows and proceeds to threaten the angry mob. The whole event continues to escalate as both sides yell back and forth all the while Preston fights to maintain control of both the mob and his troops. It's not clear on just how long the barrage of musket fire went on for, eyewitnesses have say anywhere from 15 seconds to twenty minutes. Richardson then loaded his musket and fired into the mob fatally wound!ing the young Seider who would die that evening. Attuck's however wasn't the only one who died that day, Patrick Carr, Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell. The whole thing blew up in their faces when a British Soldier is injured and fires into the crowd. Paul Revere was a silversmith who among many other great things creating an engraving of the event displaying the British Soldiers cutting down the English. Seeing the musket just seemed to create more animosity and the crowd knocked down the front door of the Richardson's house. Preston rushed to the Customhouse and formed his men in formation to prevent any harm to the guards and or destruction to the guard post. Ropemaker William Green told Walker "to go clean the outhouse", and Walker interpreted this as an insult and in response to that insult, a bit of quarrel erupted between Walker and Green. Preston and his guards ready their bayonets and began to poke and prod the mob away from the post.
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